‘The White House Has Become an Arm of the Kremlin!’ Senate Democrat Delivers Shocking Condemnation of Trump on CNN
A Senate Democrat said Sunday he believes “the White House has become an arm of the Kremlin” — in the wake of the Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) went off on Trump and the White House.
“It is absolutely shameful what is happening right now,” Murphy said. “The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”
Murphy was part of a bipartisan group of senators who met with Zelensky on Friday, prior to the Ukrainian leader’s visit to the White House. Another in that group was Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — who denounced Zelensky following the sitdown with Trump.
“I have never been more proud of the president,” Graham said Friday. “I was very proud of J.D. Vance standing up for our country. We want to be helpful. What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful. And I don’t know if we can ever do business with Zelensky again. He either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with, or he needs to change.”
CNN’s Dana Bash played that clip for Murphy and asked him to react.
“It is a sad day in America when we are getting closer and closer to Russia, a brutal dictatorship,” Murphy said. “And we are getting further and further away from democratic allies. Nobody in America wants that. People in America want that war to end, but they don’t want it to end by handing the entirety of Ukraine to Russia and elevating the power of a dictator in the Kremlin.”
Bash asked Murphy whether he regretted his vote to confirm Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“It was a mistake,” Murphy said. “I think a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Donald Trump on an issue like this … Marco Rubio has not. And that’s been a great disappointment to many of his former colleagues in the Senate.”
Watch above, via CNN.
